Man Watching Alligators Gets Bitten By Snake

MIAMI - MAY 17: An alligator is seen at the Gator Park in the Florida Everglades May 17, 2006 in Miami-Dade County. There has been a record three deaths attributed to alligator attacks in Florida in the month of May. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

File photo of an alligator. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

TAMPA (CBS Tampa/AP) – A man who stepped out of his car in Alligator Alley to view one of the deadly reptiles was bitten by a poisonous snake.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles said the 29-year-old man was bitten on the foot by a pit viper Saturday evening after he and his girlfriend made a stop to check out an alligator at mile marker 49 on I-75 eastbound. The highway is also known as Alligator Alley.

Jachles said officials from the Miami-Dade venom unit responded and an air rescue helicopter from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office flew the man to the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, Fla., where he was stabilized.